Kill a Watt and other gadgets carefully reviewed

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granpajohn

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I recalled a post on here somewhere, involving the use of a Kill a Watt meter, in which a good determination was made of unwanted power use.
So anyway, here's an extensive article about the same and similar items.
Written by meteorologist (and inventor) Anthony Watts. About the best weather science site on the web. (and the most popular amongst scientists)

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/05/new-gadget-kills-the-power-vampires-in-my-home/#more-24450

see what you think.
 
granpajohn said:
I recalled a post on here somewhere, involving the use of a Kill a Watt meter, in which a good determination was made of unwanted power use.
So anyway, here's an extensive article about the same and similar items.
Written by meteorologist (and inventor) Anthony Watts. About the best weather science site on the web. (and the most popular amongst scientists)

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/05/new-gadget-kills-the-power-vampires-in-my-home/#more-24450

see what you think.
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I have one of these. I thought my 30 year old Bar Ref was using a lot of power, turns out its about $2.50 a month. Well worth it to keep the beer cold.
 
I haven't been shocked by any old refridgerator's energy use either, but I had a boom box/cd player that drew 20 watts whether it was on or not! Now I use one that has a manual switch, when it's off, it's really off.
 
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